Karl Wilhelm von Dietrich

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Karl Wilhelm Ritter von Dietrich, "The Parliament", lithograph by Franz Würbel

Karl Johann Ignaz Wilhelm Ritter von Dietrich (born October 7, 1811 in Iglau , Moravia ; † May 3, 1889 in Ranzern ) was mayor of Opava , a member of the Silesian state parliament and a member of the Austrian Imperial Council .

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Karl was born in Iglau as the eldest son of a merchant and was baptized in the Catholic Minorite Church of the Assumption of Mary. After graduating from high school in Iglau, Karl studied law at Karl Ferdinand University in Prague . He then did a legal internship in a law firm in Jihlava, followed by a position as state attorney in Olomouc in 1840. Before Karl went to Opava, he married Anna Maria Eleonora Müller, with whom he had eight children. In 1845 Karl finally settled in his own law firm as a provincial attorney in Troppau.

In the years 1848/49 during the German Revolution , Karl became a member of the board of the Troppaus National Guard and organized volunteers who helped the rebels in Vienna . He also became a member of the Presidential Committee of Silesia , which was responsible for organizing the elections for the Frankfurt National Assembly . During the unrest, Karl was arrested and transferred to the prison of the Spielberg Fortress in Brno on charges of high treason . In a petition of March 20, 1850 to Emperor Franz Joseph I , the citizens of Troppau demanded the release of Charles, which was approved a little later, on April 13, 1850. In 1861 Karl was elected a member of the Silesian state parliament of the state capital Opava for several terms until 1883.
After the previous mayor, Franz Hein, moved to Vienna after three years in office, a new election was arranged on December 31, 1862, from which Karl emerged as the winner. He served two terms until 1869. Together with Adolf Trassler, Karl founded the first volunteer fire brigade in Opava in 1862 . During his tenure as mayor he was active in the Protestant community and in 1864 ordered the construction of the choir house. In the course of the German War in 1866, Karl Wilhelm was elevated to the hereditary nobility by Emperor Franz Joseph I and accepted into the Austrian-Imperial Leopold Order . From 1867 to 1870, Karl was also represented in various committees of the Austrian Imperial Council.
In 1884 Karl finally gave up his law firm in Troppau and moved to his estate in Ranzern near Iglau, where he died in 1889 at the age of 77.

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SURNAME Dietrich, Karl Wilhelm von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dietrich, Karl Johann Ignaz Wilhelm Ritter von (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Mayor of the city of Opava, member of the Silesian state parliament and member of the Austrian Imperial Council
DATE OF BIRTH October 7, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH Iglau , Moravia
DATE OF DEATH May 3, 1889
Place of death Ranzern